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- Comment on Epic Store's Unreal Tournament page now has free download links to Unreal, Unreal 2, and Unreal Tournament '99 1 week ago:
Anyone know what version of TacOps mod is compatible with OldUnreal’s version of UT?
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 1 month ago:
Did the publisher know which ip they were working on?
gestures broadly at the current state of KSP2
To quote every Oblivion NPC: “I don’t know you, and I don’t care to know you.”
- DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue himwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 21 comments
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 2 months ago:
A lot of the electricity probably came from burning natural gas at the power plant, and then some of that (~5%) gets lost in transmission. If we assume the natural gas plant is 60% efficient at turning gas into electricity, then an electric heating element in a hot water tank at your house would be about 55% efficient.
A typical gas furnace is about 80% efficient at turning gas into hot fluid, and a good one can reach 95% efficiency.
Depending on the fuel mix of your local grid, there’s a good chance that burning natural gas at home will result in less pollution than using electric resistance heaters, either for heating water or the air inside your home during winter. Places like Washington state that generate most of their electricity from hydroelectric power plants will be exceptions.
However, heat pumps can be higher than 100% efficiency. They don’t use electricity to generate heat, they just move heat from one place to another. You’ll produce fewer emissions overall by using an HVAC heat pump to heat your house, and a heat pump water tank for hot water. Even if you live in a place like Canada, you can reduce emissions by installing a dual-fuel system that will use electricity to run the heat pump weather permitting, and fall back to using gas when the outdoor temperature goes too far negative.
Using heat pumps to move heat from outside, to inside your house, to inside your hot water tank is more efficient than using gas to heat your home and water, even when the electricity to run the heat pump is generated by burning natural gas.
- Comment on Element in water heater died; less than two months old. 2 months ago:
- Comment on The lemmy.ml Problem 2 months ago:
The lack of moderation on lemmy.ml is a problem. For example:
- Comment on What are your favorite racing games? 2 months ago:
+1 for BeamNG.drive + Automation
Recreating production cars and racing them is fun.
Optimizing track cars for different locations is a LOT of fun. More power doesn’t always mean faster lap times - what matters is power to weight ratio, paired with getting the suspension, tires, brakes, and downforce just right.
The most fun build I’ve discovered so far is throwing a 2L, naturally aspirated V8 that makes 521 HP, into a Pontiac Fiero with racing slicks. The whole thing weighs just 1159 lbs, and can pull 3 G’s around corners.
- Comment on Launches 3 months ago:
If the sun became a red giant tomorrow, and Earth found itself inside the outer layers of solar atmosphere, then drag would start slowing it down. In less than 70,000 years, it would fall close enough to the center to be torn apart by tidal forces like one of Saturn’s moons (assuming it hasn’t already been vaporized).
If we’ve already waited 5 billion years to have our revenge, whats another 70k? The lowest amount of Delta V we can spend on this project is zero.
- Comment on Launches 3 months ago:
Sagittarius A* would like a word, and you’ll never get that word back.
- Comment on Launches 3 months ago:
What if we catch a gravity assist off Jool, and do the retrograde burn at perijool to catch some Oberth Effect?
- Comment on Finally a company's mission that I stand behind 3 months ago:
- Comment on BEAM 3 months ago:
- Comment on biodegradable 3 months ago:
it’s the bees knees when you’re married - cream pies all day, every day
- Comment on Bread 3 months ago:
After licking every slice.
- Comment on Religious people: The world is ending 3 months ago:
Scientists: Climate Change will lead to everything going to shit if we don’t change our gluttonous ways and become good stewards of Creation.
Supply Side Jesus: HERESY!
- Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives 3 months ago:
That’s what she said.
- Comment on Society problems? The Pokemon Company is here to help. 3 months ago:
declining birthrate is a solution
- Comment on no downvoting for specific communities? 3 months ago:
lol, thank you
- Submitted 3 months ago to support@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on That's a big burger 3 months ago:
Some people find hydrostatic equilibrium aesthetically pleasing.
- Comment on Mand got big hands! 3 months ago:
The Book of Enoch is wild though. It reads like a first hand account from a bronze age tribal getting abducted by aliens.
- Comment on Dripping Menace 3 months ago:
would
- Comment on Do you prefer RPGs or FPS games? 4 months ago:
I like action games, including FPS, with RPG elements.
Borderlands and Diablo - I like that you can just jump in and start blasting without really having to read anything about the setting or characters
Fallout and Cyberpunk 2077 - slower paced and less immediately fun than the previous two, but the action does keep the story interesting
Pure RPGs can be fun as an engineering project - twisting the game’s systems to create unbalanced character builds.
- Comment on Curious Visitor 4 months ago:
we can’t stop here, this is rat country
- Comment on fish 4 months ago:
kitties
- Comment on Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali? 5 months ago:
ironically not communist
- Comment on Have fun with this one 5 months ago:
pickle bowls are rare
- Comment on The shooter posted a video of him saying "I hate republicans. I hate Trump" 5 months ago:
that’s some good copium!
- Comment on Sleep soundly 5 months ago:
An adventure for characters level 10-14.
- Comment on Apple 5 months ago:
guess that’s why they’re into appeasing dick taters
